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Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect

Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paulina TambakakiPublish date:2025-05-31Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399538657ISBN-10:1399538659UPC:9781399538657Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Ideologies, Civics & CitizenshipBook Topic:DemocracySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCRAZVJG34
The book proposes that loss of affect for liberal democracy is a key problem today, in need of closer analysis. Manifested in an unprecedent suspicion of democratic governments, a readiness to elect authoritarian rulers, and a rise in reactionary politics, loss of affect pertains to the way that citizens experience democracy - their growing disinvestment from the democratic form of rule. It raises worrying questions, about the survival of democratic values into the twenty-first century, that democratic theorists often tend to either ignore or exaggerate. To navigate these questions, the book argues that grief can be a useful political resource. Understood as a response to loss, grief engages the imagination, opening the way to another, perhaps more caring, experience of democracy. To illuminate the nature of this experience, the book draws on feminist scholarship and work on contemporary culture, where grief and affect intersect.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399538657ISBN-10:1399538659UPC:9781399538657Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Ideologies, Civics & CitizenshipBook Topic:DemocracySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCRAZVJG34
Tambakaki, Paulina: - Paulina Tambakaki is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Westminster, UK.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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